Those of you who still believe that Putin has only been standing up for Russia’s best interests can say goodbye to me for now. He revealed his game plan years ago when he stated that in his opinion the fall of the Soviet Union had been the greatest geo-political disaster of the 20th century and has since been playing a slow and crafty game, setting us up against one and other, in an attempt to exploit our weaknesses. Evident and misguided follies such as Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, the movement for Catalan independence, and so on, have only played in his favour and I suspect have been actively promoted by him either directly or indirectly in order to further fragment NATO and the European Union and thereby weaken our resolve. Make no mistake; he is a nasty, scheming piece of shit as has been made evident in the manner he has treated dissent, opposition and criticism in his own country as well as abroad. This Homo Sovieticus and his Kleptocratic barons of bling ought to be sewn into a weighted sack and tipped ingloriously overboard like the miserable rats that they are before they drag us into another Work War. I pray for us all, and especially for the Ukrainian people at this moment.